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THE EAST. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was held at Philadelphia on the 12th. In reply to questions Col. Scott stated that his salary was $24,000 per year since the reduction. The Vice-Presidents got $10,000 and $12,000; the other officers from $2,000 to $12,000. The coinage of the new silver dollars was commenced at the Philadelphia mint on the 11th. The first dollar struck went to President Hayes and the second to the Secret of the Treasury. Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire are to have their annual fast on Thursday, April 11. Two freshmen of Dartmouth College have been arested for an assault upon a sophomore and a senior. The returns from the New Hampshire election up to the morning of the 13th indicated the election of Prescott (Rep.) for Governor by 1,500 majority. The Republicans claimed the House by 50 majority. The Prohibitory Liquor bill was defeated118 to 93-in the Massachusetts House of Representatives on the 12th. The Connecticut Legislature, on the 13th, passed the bill reorganizing the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company on the mutual plan. The heaviest hail-storm ever experienced in West Virginia passed over Jefferson County on the night of the 11th. Hail-stones larger than eggs fell, unroofing houses, breaking A glass, and killing cattle, hogs and sheep. heavy rain followed, washing out the growing wheat. The damage is estimated at $75,000 to $100,000. Another row occurred at Princeton (N.J.) College on the 13th, between Juniors and Seminary students. Three of the latter were 1 severely beaten. Six of the Juniors were arrested. A new bridge over the Raritan River at New Brunswick, N. J., to replace the one burned on the 9th, was completed on the 13th. It of wood, 900 feet long, cost $20,000, and 500 I men were employed in its construction. n Buyers paid a fraction above par in gold for the new silver dollar in New York on the 14th. r The Newburyport (Mass.) Five-Cent Savings 1 Bank has suspended business. The Pennsylvania Senate has adopted a resolution urging upon Senators and RepresentS atives from that State the importance of united f action in opposing any change of the present n tariff system so far as it affects the interests d of that State. The boy Welsh who killed his playmate at 1 Philadelphia has been released by the Coroe ner's jury. o Grenville Tremain, Republican candidate in New York last fall for Attorney-General, died t at Albany on the 14th of typhoid fever. A bill introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on the 15th makes human cremation a misdeameanor punishable with II fine and imprisonment. e Joseph La Paige was executed in the State y Prison at Concord, N.H., on the 15th, for the murder of Josie Langmaid at Pembroke in g 1875. He acknowledged hisguilt and confessed the murder of Miss Ball at St. Albans, Vt., in n 1874. is On the 15th the schooner Young America d sailed from Buffalo for Detroit. g The schooner Carrie P. Morton and crew of e fourteen men, of Gloucester, Mass., are sup e posed to be lost. 1. The New York canals will open by April 10. to Furness, Ash & Co., the oldest dry-goods, e auction and commission house in Philadelphia ; have failed. is Commodore John H. Graham, U. S. Navy, as died on the 15th at Newburgh, N. Y., of apoil plexy, aged eighty-four. The cotton manufacturers of Fall River, Mass., have voted a 15 per cent. reduction of wages, beginning April 1. n The Philadelphia Press on the 16th dis8charged all Union printers employed on the paper and filled their places with non-Union at men. re On the 15th and 16th there were runs on the rFive-Cent, Provident and Suffolk Savings in Banks, of Boston. A mass-meeting was held at Allentown, Pa. non the 16th to protest against the passage of the new Tariff bill. 8The U.S. sloops-of-war Portsmouth and Wy ioming sailed on the 16th from New York with d exhibits for the Paris Exposition. During February the value of exports from m New York was $9,734,925. at The Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Companies resumed work in eleven of their collieries Of n the 18th, on three-quarters time, giving work it to 2,000 men and boys. e, A.L. Boyer and C. Sellers, officers of the b. suspended Dime Savings Bank, of Reading to Pa., have been held for trial in $5,000 bail each ty on the charge of conspiracy to defraud. The Pennsylvania Coal Company resume a work on the 19th. he nWEST AND SOUTH.
